Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated how much the roles of women in the U.S. military have expanded.   During a decade’s worth of conflict, more than 283,000 women were deployed to the two countries. Hundreds of them served in harm’s wa...   read more

If four of the losing Republican presidential candidates are telling the truth, then spiritual endorsement is not a sign of primary success.   This week, Mitt Romney said goodbye to his last serious challenger to the GOP nomination. Rick Santoru...   read more

Jay Bauer, an intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago, is suing the FBI over a single pushup. Bauer was an assistant professor in communications sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, when he left to ...   read more

The federal government wants to obtain the capability to hack into video game consoles, all in the name of thwarting terrorism and pedophiles.   Obscure Technologies, a small San Francisco-based company that performs computer forensics, has rece...   read more

The Department of Defense has allowed companies to obtain contracts intended for disabled-veteran owned businesses by doing little more than check boxes on a form, thanks to a self-verify system that provides no accountability.   The Pentagon’s ...   read more

A federal appellate court has ruled that two Secret Service agents must face charges for violating the free speech rights of protesters by engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” during the administration of President George W. Bush.   On October...   read more

Although the current U.S. Supreme Court has the reputation of being pro-business, corporations would be wise not to press their luck with the high court when it comes to tax fraud. Two university law professors found that, historically, businesses...   read more

Dr. Robert M. Groves announced on Tuesday that he was resigning his position as director of the U.S. Census Bureau in order to take over as provost of Georgetown University. “I’m an academic at heart,” Groves told The Washington Post. He will leav...   read more

At a time when 12.7 million unemployed Americans are in need of jobs, the U.S. government is spending less on job training than it did during better economic times.   Federal funding for the “primary training program for dislocated workers,” acc...   read more

No one can say the U.S. hasn’t been generous towards Israel since it was founded in 1948.   Over a period of 64 years (including the 2013 budget request), the U.S. has given Israel more than $115 billion in military and foreign aid, which averag...   read more

The U.S. military intends to conduct the trial of the alleged mastermind of the attack on USS Cole behind closed doors, much to consternation of news organizations.   The McClatchy Co., The Washington Post and The New York Times filed a legal pr...   read more

A leading contender for Egypt’s presidency who has run on an ultra-nationalist, anti-foreign platform has been disqualified from running because his mother reportedly is a U.S. citizen.   Authorities with the nation’s electoral commission said H...   read more

A new study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement resulted in an unhealthy diet shift for millions of Mexicans.   Since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, Mexico’s ...   read more

Despite complaints on the Republican presidential campaign trail about President Obama’s alleged bias in favor of government spending, in fact his administration has actually seen a contraction in the size of government, which has slowed the natio...   read more

Government inspectors of poultry plants are objecting to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s solution for revamping a flawed food inspection system.   Instead of federal inspectors monitoring assembly lines for unhealthy chickens, the USDA want...   read more

Banks currently control 95% of the small business lending market. Now they are lobbying Congress to stop credit unions from cutting into the market.   At issue is S. 2231, the Credit Union Small Business Jobs Act, which would raise the cap on th...   read more